Not exact matches
Requiring employees to submit weekly
reports will help them stay
on task and give yourself
certainty during this very uncertain time.
Monaco were believed to be pushing for an obligation
on PSG's part to complete the transfer next summer, in order to have
certainty over a
reported fee of 180million euros (# 166m), but when the deal was announced it was phrased as an option to buy.
There have been
reports from a newspaper in Marseille that Nasri is
on his way and even The Guardian have marked the Frenchman's move down as a near
certainty.
While one out - of - contract Juventus player seems to be a
certainty to leave Turin and sign with another team this summer,
reports out of Italy
on Sunday make it seem like one of the other fellas is staying put right where he is and will be sticking around a few more years.
While one out - of - contract Juventus player seems to be a
certainty to leave Turin this summer,
reports out of Italy
on Sunday make it seem like one of the other fellas is staying put right where he is and will be sticking around a few more years.
I should take a quote from «Equities Market Outlook in 2017» issued by Afrinvest
reported in the media under the headline «Multiple Exchange Rates Stall Foreign Inflow into Nigerian Equities» in January 2017, «Our interactions with several foreign investors with interests in Nigeria suggest that a decision to stake any position in the Nigerian market will be a function of currency liquidity and a greater
certainty on their ability to repatriate capital anytime they divest.
This increased
certainty is starkly reflected in the latest
report of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC), the fourth in a series of assessments of the state of knowledge
on the topic, written and reviewed by hundreds of scientists worldwide.
THOMPSON: One of the things that have struck me in
reporting on this issue is that a significant segment of the business community wants to see some kind of definitive policy because they like
certainty.
«Our goal was to provide a scientifically rigorous document for the nonspecialist with a frank discussion
on the
certainties and uncertainties,» AAS President Suzanne Cory said at a press briefing to release the
report on 16 August.
«Our level of
certainty which we can address the question of whether the gully features that we're
reporting on were formed by water is high, but not extremely high,» the study's leader Michael Malin, chief scientist at Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, California, told SPACE.com.
Authors from 40 countries worked
on the
report, which concluded with 90 percent
certainty that humans are the main cause of rising temperatures.
Whether the List research will help in Newark, I'm not sure, but according to the Bloomberg
report, «List says that his experiments will give policy makers, executives and investors much greater
certainty about why students, donors and shoppers make the decisions they do» and «may show that the U.S. doesn't spend enough
on helping parents.»
We're not sure how much water this
report holds, but one thing is a
certainty... HTC isn't going to be sitting
on the tablet sidelines forever.Read
Boy Genius
Report, they of the relentlessly reliable spy - network at RIM, is announcing with a lot of
certainty that the long - awaited BlackBerry Bold will be released
on AT&T
on October 27th.
The little activity that he does
report is his opposition to the DREAM Act which would have subsidized education for illegal immigrants, and he voted «yea»
on the Bipartisan Student Loan
Certainty Act.
No matter where you are in the world, there is something we can
report on with
certainty, the Animal Crossing... View Article
To chart the enduring lack of
certainty, read the various leaks from the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change
report and you'll see roughly the same «maybe» forecast that scientists provided for my 1988 Discover Magazine cover story
on global warming (the climate panel was just being formed at that time).
There, he focuses
on an important piece, «More knowledge, less
certainty,» written by the climatologist Kevin Trenberth for Nature
Reports / Climate Change earlier this year.
In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change Fifth Assessment
Report stated a clear expert consensus that: «It is extremely likely [defined as 95 - 100 %
certainty] that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic [human - caused] increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together.»
I guess politically it is important to ramp up the
certainty a little bit each time a
report is released, and that is perhaps validated by the continuing warmth (
on top of the 1920 - 40 warmth) and / or small improvements in levels of understanding of some of the known forcings.
Given the increased levels of
certainty regarding human - induced global warming (from 90 to 95 %), more robust projections
on sea - level rise and data
on melting of ice sheets, and the «carbon budget» for staying below the 2 °C target, the WGI conclusions together with other AR5 component
reports are likely to put more pressure
on the UNFCCC parties to deliver by 2015 an ambitious agreement that is capable of preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
The assignment of probability - likelihood -
certainty is not statistically based
on data, rather it is subjective opinion — of one or several IPCC leads — who in fact totally control of
report content -LRB-... although government final reviewers also have final call / edit of the IPCC
report).
Remember this is in the context of a
report that generally stripped out any words that implied doubt or lack of
certainty on the warming side.
This is the thinking that drives me to think that a nuclear version of the IPCC should be set up in this country to
report on issues related to nuclear power and to bring
certainty to discussion where there is ignorance and hysteria.
I can predict these with absolute
certainty because they are the same stories run
on the last IPCC
report, and I don't expect those folks at the IPCC to change their stripes.
The
report states that «confidence» is based
on «mechanistic understanding, theory, models, expert judgment,» and that
certainty levels can also be based just
on «expert judgment.»
Mr Miller highlights a World at One
report in September of a landmark UN Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) research project which found concluded with 95 per cent
certainty that the climate is changing and that human activity is the main cause.
The Guidance Note for Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment
Report on Consistent Treatment of Uncertainties impose upon the lead authors to assign subjective levels of confidence to their findings: «The AR5 will rely
on two metrics for communicating the degree of
certainty in key findings: 1 Confidence in the validity of a finding, based
on the type, amount, quality, and consistency of evidence (e.g., mechanistic understanding, theory, data, models, expert judgment) and the degree of agreement.
In the meantime, during the debates about US domestic policy
on climate change that have been taking place for almost thirty years, the US media has
reported on climate issues almost exclusively by focusing
on issues of scientific
certainty about climate change impacts and economic cost to the US economy.
The New York Times
reported on what it called the
report's «near
certainty» that humans are responsible for the rising temperatures of recent decades and its warning that sea levels could rise by more than three feet by the end of the century.
The previously linked media
reports on EDF's announcement almost breathlessly tout technology that would seemingly address the satellite limitations listed above and usher in a new age of absolute
certainty on the methane emission data front.
For example, while the
report does find that three independent studies «did not find conclusive evidence for the impact of human - caused climate change
on the ongoing rainfall deficit in California,» it does not claim this with
certainty.
But critics say that the
report in some cases overstated the level of scientific
certainty on the issue or simply got things wrong.
«The principal concern is that as compliance - based regulation is focused
on outcomes rather than rules, there is more ambiguity and less
certainty for firms as to what they must actually do to achieve compliance,» says the consultation
report.
For example, in one recent media
report, a commentator stated matter of factly that «there isn't very much of it» («it» being price fixing among firms in Canada), that «at any one time, at any one year, there are 10, 12, 15 cases going
on» and that «for every case that gets detected, there are probably several cases that aren't» [http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/price-fixing-explainer-1.4489213] Given that price fixing and other conspiracies among competitors are by their nature conducted in secret and there are no statistics or sources of information
on active cartels, such speculation
on the level that Canadian markets may or may not be cartelized is simply impossible to state with any
certainty.
This is consistent with the statement in the WA Premier's recently released draft
report Focus
on the future: The Western Australian State Sustainability Strategy (September 2002) which states «
Certainty for industry's development proposals and security for Aboriginal peoples» cultural heritage and values must be equally respected within the overall development of the State», p61.
See Guardian Australia's
report on initial reactions, where Aboriginal leaders welcomed the announced review of the services to communities but said they needed much more detail and
certainty for concerned residents.